stephenconnolly

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by stephenconnolly 8y ago
Ah yes, but at what point does paying someone for work make them an employee? Given that the users of the app in question were being paid by Google, one could argue they are employed... or at least are contractors. On the other hand, given
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by stephenconnolly 10y ago
For the record, this was by design I wanted the status balls to be the primary focus. The weather icons should only be looked at when all the builds are blue. If they are too attention grabbing then you don't go fixing the red (didn&
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by stephenconnolly 10y ago
Well my original plan was that the default build instructions would be in a README.md file in the root of the source control as a verbatim block in the highest level heading containing the word "build" If you needed any additional
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by stephenconnolly 10y ago
It's not supposed to be just recent history. The weather is also supposed to be: * the code coverage of the most recent build, * the findbugs / violations count of the most recent build * any other health metric that plugins dec
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by stephenconnolly 10y ago
So the point here is that the weather icons are slightly misunderstood and underused. Way back in the way back, a colleague and I were looking to get some extra information onto the Jenkins (then Hudson) jobs screen. I had some chats with K
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by stephenconnolly 11y ago
> build configuration is purely declarative and can be checked in with the project. Seems like you are missing the point of pipeline and the Jenkinsfile concept, namely that the pipeline is part of the SCM. Yes you can have the pipeline
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Version numbers(javaadventure.blogspot.com)
1 points by stephenconnolly 12y ago|0 comments
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Log4J 2.0's Asynchronous Loggers and Immutability(javaadventure.blogspot.com)
1 points by stephenconnolly 12y ago|0 comments
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by stephenconnolly 13y ago
Freshly boiled water has a higher oxygen content than reboiled or water that has been kept at/near boiling for a long time. For best tea, you should only use water that has been boiled once (since reaching an equilibrium with dissolved
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by stephenconnolly 13y ago
I debated including that example, but at the end the point I was making is that the JVM can be faster than native code in some cases... this case had static allocation of data and the calculations could benefit from MMX instructions when
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About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight”(developer-blog.cloudbees.com)
220 points by stephenconnolly 13y ago|208 comments
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by stephenconnolly 13y ago
Ahem! The initial commit includes: https://github.com/jenkinsci/literate-api/blob/master/src/ma... however it is not completed yet ( see the comment in https://github.com/jenkinsci&#
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by stephenconnolly 13y ago
If your build commands are so complex that you need a shell script, go write the shell script and then in the README you tell the users what shell script to invoke and any required parameters. The point is that you always will have a README